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Tube passengers air their biggest gripes including not taking your backpack off and annoyingly leaning against the pole

Tube passengers air their biggest gripes including not taking your backpack off and annoyingly leaning against the pole. Londoners have aired their biggest gripes about the Tube, including people not taking their backpacks off, and leaning against the pole in the middle of carriages. A frustrated commuter called Katie took to Reddit to complain: “People travelling on the

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TfL facing £400m budget hole as passengers desert ‘rowdy and crowded’ London Tube

Transport for London is facing a £400m hole in its budget as passengers desert increasingly rowdy and overcrowded Tube services.TfL fares income is projected to fall £239m below expectations this financial year, with commercial income – from advertising, retail and property – £160m down, according to confidential documents seen by the Standard.The Tube is the worst

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New interactive Tube map reveals how busy each London Underground station is at peak times

A data enthusiast has created an interactive map of the Tube network which shows how many thousands of passengers pass through the stations each day. The map, which mirrors the geographical layout of the capital using coordinates, shows the traditional Tube map redrawn in a spidery design. Source: New interactive Tube map reveals how busy each

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Night Tube services will not run on the Bank branch of the Northern line until 2022

The Night Tube will not be extended to the Bank branch of the Northern line until 2022, Transport for London bosses have said. The 24-hour service on Friday and Saturdays currently only runs on the Charing Cross branch of the line after launching in November 2016. Services will not run overnight to stations including London

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Tube ‘thought of the day’: The station where it started

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. These aphorisms do not come from the inedible innards of a fortune cookie but are instead the food for thought

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Heathrow to Upminster for just £1.50

Geoff Marshall says, it’s 32 miles between Heathrow (out in the west) to Upminster (in the east), and yet there’a way of travelling between these two Zone 6 tube stations for just … £1.50 – here’s how DOWNLOAD! His PDF table which lists both the single oyster/contactless fares AND show the caps from his website,

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Tube map reveals how much workers earn near London’s stations

This seems very odd to me. These are average salaries of advertised jobs. We all know that averages can vary wildly depending on which method you choose (Mean, Mode, Median), and which jobs are advertised? Not all of them. So with this in mind, why not read on and make up your own mind… Read

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